Tool-handle



(No Model.)

R. 0-. ELLRIOH.

TOOL HANDLE. No. 288,560. Patented Nov. 18,1883.

. if I fiM AZ-M MAW 17 @Z/MW A UNITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

ROBERT C. ELLRICII, OF SOUTHINGTON, ASSIGNOR TO THE ELLRICH HARD- WAREMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF PLANTSVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

TOOL-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 288,560, dated November13, 1883.

Application filed July 7, 1883. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT C. ELLRIoH, of Southington, in the county ofHartford, and in the State of Connecticut, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Tool- Handles; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of thisspecification, in whichl Figurel is a perspective view of the parts of ascrew-driver adapted for connection by means of my improved ferrule.Fig. 2 is a like view of the same combined, and Fig. 3 is a centrallongitudinal section of said parts as combined. I

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of thefigures.

In the use of tools provided with wooden handles'great difficulty hasheretofore been experienced in so uniting the same as to preventaccidental separation, and much trouble and annoyance has arisen fromthe insecurity of such connection.

To obviate this difficulty is the design of my invention, whichconsists, as a means for uniting tools to handles, in a ferrule fittedinto and caused to fill a circumferential groove which is formed withinthe periphery of the handle and the edges of the tool-shank insertedwithin said handle, substantially as hereinafter specified.

In the annexed drawings, A represents a screw-driver blade, which has,generally, the usual form, but at its handle end is provided with ashank, a, which has a omparatively short tang, a, at its upper end, anmthence downward to the blade portion has an e treme width substantiallyequal to the contigmms portion of said blade, and within each edge isprovided with a notch, a as shown.

The handle B has any desired general form but at itslower end has adiameter corresponding to the extreme width of'the shank a of the bladeA, and is provided with a recess, b,which 5 sponds in depth and width tosaid notches,

and of which the latter forms a part.

Fitted closely into the groove 0 is a ferrule, C, which may be made ofwire 'WOLlIld within and soldered, of fusible metal cast in place, ofmalleable metal spun into shape and position, or of any suitablematerial and construction, the only requisite being that said ferrulepossess sufficient strength to properly confine said parts together andfit closely within and thoroughly fill said groove. The blade and handlethus combined can only be separated by the breakage of one of the parts,as it is manifestly impracticable for such to be done while the ferruleremains intact, and before the lat ter can be removed it must be cutapart or the lower end of said handle cut or broken away.

While this invention is illustrated in its application to screw-drivers,it will be seen that it is equally applicable to any kind of tool whichis united by a shank to wooden handle.

Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of my invention, whatI claim as new As a means for uniting tools to handles, a ferrule fittedinto and caused to fill a circumferential groove which is formed withinthe periphery of the handle, and the edges of the tool-shank insertedwithin said handle, substantially as specified. In testimony that Iclaim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 3d day of July, A.D. 1883. ROBERT C. ELLRICH.

Witnesses:

L. Wz-Ronnnvs, GEORGE S. ALLEN.

